{"id":38183,"date":"2012-05-22T12:48:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T10:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38183"},"modified":"2012-05-22T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:42:07","slug":"silicon-knights-vs-epic-lawsuit-down-to-1-per-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38183-silicon-knights-vs-epic-lawsuit-down-to-1-per-claim","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Knights vs. Epic: lawsuit down to $1 per claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legal wrangling between Epic Games and Silicon Knights, which has now been going on for longer than anybody has even been alive, is finally coming to a close &#8211; but it&#8217;s not turning out the way Silicon Knights might have anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>The studio originally sued Epic for $58 million in damages after (<em>basically<\/em>, because it&#8217;s complicated) claiming that Epic had failed to provide adequate support for the Unreal Engine 3 during the development of Too Human.<\/p>\n<p>That amount has now been reduced to just $1 per claim, a judge ruled this week, presumably banging his gavel and saying, &#8220;Sick burn, bro.&#8221; Apparently Silicon Knights failed to provide adequate support for the allegations. It&#8217;s irony or something almost exactly like it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s assuming Silicon Knights even wins the case. At this point, it might be less humiliating to lose it and say that&#8217;s what they&#8217;d planned all along.<\/p>\n<p>The case is expected to go on for another week.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gaming\/2012\/5\/21\/3034805\/silicon-knights-vs-epic-trial-has-big-names-but-little-money\" target=\"_blank\">Polygon<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2012-05-22-epic-vs-silicon-knights-lawsuit-claims-now-worth-USD1-each\" target=\"_blank\">GI.biz<\/a>)<\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Too Human dev: \u201cThere is always hope\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34752-too-human-dev-there-is-always-hope.html\">Too Human dev: \u201cThere is always hope\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Silicon Knights confirms layoffs\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/15276-silicon-knights-confirms-layoffs.html\">Silicon Knights confirms layoffs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Crystal Dynamics working on new Soul Reaver?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34485-crystal-dynamics-working-on-new-soul-reaver.html\">Crystal Dynamics working on new Soul Reaver?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":34753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2869,1415,2814,2870,2871],"class_list":["post-38183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-denis-dyack","tag-epic-games","tag-silicon-knights","tag-too-human","tag-unreal-3-engine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38188,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183\/revisions\/38188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}